We have recently shown that fibrin D-dimer, tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) antigen, von Willebrand factor antigen, fibrinogen, plasma viscosity, and white cell count are associated with subsequent ischemic heart disease (IHD) in men aged 49 to 65 years in the Caerphilly Study from South Wales. We now report the contribution of major lifestyle factors to plasma levels of these new risk predi...

In the study of the rheumatic diseases the measurement of blood sedimentation rate has an established value in estimating the activity of the disease and in evaluating the effects of treatment. It is generally agreed, however, that the erythrocyte sedimentation rate is not always a reliable index even if a correction is made for anaemia. The study of the viscosity of blood was first described o...

We have recently shown that fibrin D-dimer, tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) antigen, von Willebrand factor antigen, fibrinogen, plasma viscosity, and white cell count are associated with subsequent ischemic heart disease (IHD) in men aged 49 to 65 years in the Caerphilly Study from South Wales. We now report the contribution of major lifestyle factors to plasma levels of these new risk predi...

BACKGROUND Extracorporeal circulation (ECC) can induce alterations in blood viscoelasticity and cause red blood cell (RBC) aggregation. In this study, the authors evaluated the effects of pump flow pulsatility on blood viscoelasticity and RBC aggregation. METHODS Mongrel dogs were randomly assigned to two groups: a nonpulsatile pump group (n=6) or a pulsatile pump group (n=6). After ECC was s...

BACKGROUND Body weight, body mass index, fibrinogen concentration and relative plasma viscosity can contribute to the development of hypertension in diabetics. This study compares body weight, body mass index, fibrinogen concentration and relative plasma viscosity between hypertensive diabetics, normotensive diabetics and healthy controls. METHODS The present study was carried out on normoten...

We study the eeects of plasma viscosity on the dynamics of primordial magnetic elds by simulating magnetohydrodynamics in the early universe by appropriate non-linear cascade models. We nd numerically that even in the presence of large kinetic viscosity, magnetic energy is transferred to large length scales. There are indications, however, that the inverse cascade stops at a given time which de...

We derive an expression for the anomalous viscosity in an anisotropically expanding quark-gluon-plasma, which arises from interactions of thermal partons with dynamically generated color fields. The anomalous viscosity dominates over the collisional viscosity for large velocity gradients or weak coupling. This effect may provide an explanation for the apparent “nearly perfect” liquidity of the ...

Molecular rotors have emerged as versatile probes of microscopic viscosity in lipid bilayers, although it has proved difficult to find probes that stain both phases equally in phase-separated bilayers. Here, we investigate the use of a membrane-targeting viscosity-sensitive fluorophore based on a thiophene moiety with equal affinity for ordered and disordered lipid domains to probe ordering and...